Photo and Graphics Designer - Can I really only use 12 percent of my memory?

[Forumarian]

Is there any way around the 32bit memory limit of P&G Designer?

It is always saying it's getting low on memory and crashing sometimes even though it's only using about 1.5gb and I have 16gb of memory.
Yesterday I lost lots of work because I didn't save for about 45 minutes and had a crash.

I have already optimised images.

I specifically bought the amount of memory I have so I wouldn't have these issues.

Is the only way to use my 16gb of memory to chuck p&G designer and rebuy the much more expensive designer pro with lots of features I would never use?

It's really quite dissapointing, I'm thinking about going back to Inkscape (since they fixed the problem that made me leave) of course I'll have to spend a few days redesigning everything in there.

[gwpriester]

There is a utility that lets your application use up to 4GB of RAM. http://www.ntcore.com/4gb_patch.php

[steve.ledger]

Is there any way around the 32bit memory limit of P&G Designer?

It is always saying it's getting low on memory and crashing sometimes even though it's only using about 1.5gb and I have 16gb of memory.
Yesterday I lost lots of work because I didn't save for about 45 minutes and had a crash.

I have already optimised images.

I specifically bought the amount of memory I have so I wouldn't have these issues.

Is the only way to use my 16gb of memory to chuck p&G designer and rebuy the much more expensive designer pro with lots of features I would never use?

It's really quite dissapointing, I'm thinking about going back to Inkscape (since they fixed the problem that made me leave) of course I'll have to spend a few days redesigning everything in there.

P&GD is a 32bit application. Like all 32bit applications, it cannot access 16Gb of memory. Unless 32bit software is Large Address Aware the default amount is 2Gb.
Designer Pro X 10 64bit version might have been a better choice for you?


► https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366778.aspx

[gwpriester]

The utility I linked to allows 32 bit apps to access 4GB of RAM. I used it with my stereogram software which is 32 bit and which would not let me create 300dpi poster-sized images because of the memory issues.

The utility solved that issue.

[steve.ledger]

Gary, the OP expected 16Gb to be used with his 32bit application.
That [useful] patch makes some 32bit software processes large address aware [LAA] allowing access to 4Gb on 64bit systems.

[jyoung]

I agree with Forumarian. Even Photoshop Elements has a 64bit version now. I believe his post is wondering why P&D has to remain at 32bit. It seems that since the technology is there for the Pro edition, would it really be that difficult to apply it to P&D?

[steve.ledger]

The Pro edition of Photo&Graphic Designer 10 (formerly Xara Xtreme) is Designer Pro X10 (formerly Xara Xtreme Pro)
This is similar to the two versions of Web Designer.

Perhaps the answer is not to have some many versions of essentially identical software and lower the price of the Pro and Premium applications, they'd sell more licenses and would make up any shortfall.